瑞州洞山良价禪師語錄 1.4

1.4

師遂辭溈山，徑造雲巖，舉前因緣了，便問：「無情說法，甚麼人得聞？」雲巖云：「無情得聞。」師云：「和尚聞否？」雲巖云：「我若聞，汝即不聞吾說法也。」師云：「某甲為甚麼不聞？」雲巖竪起拂子云：「還聞麼？」師云：「不聞。」雲巖云：「我說法，汝尚不聞，豈況無情說法乎？」師云：「無情說法，該何典教？」雲巖云：「豈不見《彌陀經》云：『水鳥、樹林悉皆念佛、念法。』」師於此有省，乃述偈云：「也大奇！也大奇！無情說法不思議，若將耳聽終難會，眼處聞聲方得知。」

The Master then took leave of Guishan and went straight to Yunyan. Having recounted the previous nidāna, he immediately asked, "When insentient beings expound the Dharma, what kind of person can hear it?" Yunyan said, "The insentient can hear it." The Master asked, "Does the upādhyāya hear it?" Yunyan said, "If I were to hear it, you would not hear my expounding of the Dharma." The Master said, "Why don't I hear it?" Yunyan held up his fly-whisk and said, "Do you still hear it?" The Master said, "I do not hear it." Yunyan said, "When I expound the Dharma, you do not even hear it; how much less the Dharma expounded by insentient beings!" The Master asked, "What canonical teaching covers insentient beings expounding the Dharma?" Yunyan said, "Have you not seen the Amitābha-sūtra, which says: 'Waterbirds and groves of trees all recite the Buddha and recite the Dharma'?" At this, the Master had an awakening, and he composed a gāthā: "How wondrous! How wondrous! / Insentient beings expounding the Dharma is inconceivable. / If you listen with the ear, it is ultimately hard to understand; / Only when hearing the sound with the eye can it be known!"